Node tree update calls in the middle of a socket loop are dangerous, they can change sockets
on group nodes and link instances in particular. Updates should only happen after the operator
has finished.
Simply removed the extra convenience check for validity now. Worst case an invalid (red) link
is created which can be removed by the user as well and should simply be ignored by node systems.
The update system in nodes needs a complete rewrite to handle complex cases like this, where an
operator may need to react to changes during its execution.
In some cases, we can have nodegroups without attached nodetree, this case is checked
in top `node_group_has_output()` entry point, but not in recursive `node_group_has_output_dfs()`.
Issue appeared after rB42824f4403db3a35, presumably because check on node flag itself
was skipping that case, which is no more possible when using ID tags.
Reported by sebastian_k over IRC, thanks.
This was we don't have re-compo or viewport re-rendering happening when changing
nodes which are not connected to the output at all (for example when adding new
nodes or changing settings for unconnected nodes).
Only basic operations are covered for now. checks could be added to more tools
when needed.
Currently it's not fully optimal implementation, but seems to work fast enough.
Don't see reliable alternative to that -- keeping tag in the node wouldn't work
because of the node groups (which are probably already broken, but should be
easy to solve with current approach). So guess it's more matter of optimizing
path search from a node to output.
Before processing forward let's check whether it's indeed something we want
and whether the approach is indeed not fully bad.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, mont29
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1765
Nodes have a feature for moving existing links to unoccupied sockets when connecting
to an already used input. This is based on the standard legacy socket types (value/float,
vector, color/rgba) and works reasonably well for shader, compositor and texture nodes.
For new pynode systems, however, the hardcoded nature of that feature has major drawbacks:
* It does not take different type systems into account, leading to meaningless connections
when sockets are swapped and making the feature useless or outright debilitating.
* Advanced socket behaviors would be possible with a registerable callback, e.g. creating
extensible input lists that move existing connections down to make room for a new link.
Now any handling of new links is done via the 'insert_links' callback, which can also be
registered through the RNA API. For the legacy shader/compo/tex nodes the behavior is the
same, using a C callback.
Note on the 'use_swap' flag: this has been removed because it was meaningless anyway:
It was disabled only for the insert-node-on-link feature, which works only for
completely unconnected nodes anyway, so there would be nothing to swap in the first place.
Compositing might make main thread so busy that animation is considered done due to duration before final position is reached.
Also added check to avoid unnecessary redraws.
- Add blentranslation `BLT_*` module.
- moved & split `BLF_translation.h` into (`BLT_translation.h`, `BLT_lang.h`).
- moved `BLF_*_unifont` functions from `blf_translation.c` to new source file `blf_font_i18n.c`.
The old method:
The "old" method used the node dimensions to get a number of lines and checked if they intersect with the node link. Issue with this is that only a small part of the actual node surface is checked, making the method a bit unpredictable or unresponsive.
The new method:
The new method checks for intersections within the entire node surface. If multiple links are intersected, the node with the smallest distance from the *upper left corner* to the link is chosen.
Reviewed by @campbellbarton (tm)
Implements "Auto-offset" (called "insert offset" in code) feature for Node Editor, developed during and after LSOC :)
Idea and sponsoring by Sebastian König, blendFX, Mathias Eimann, Mikavaa, Knick Design
When you drop a node with at least one input and one output socket onto a an existing connection between two nodes, Auto-offset will, depending on the direction setting, automatically and animated move the left or right and all of its following nodes away to make room for the new node.
The direction for offsetting can be toggled while you are moving the node by pressing „T“.
The auto-offset is enabled by default but can be disabled in the header of the node-editor. The offset margin can be changed in the editing section of the User Preferences.
Thanks a lot to the sponsors, and especially to Sebastian who helped *a lot* with this. That's how users can help developing Blender!
Our current keymap doesn't give us enough room to make such changes in
the event system. To fix small issues caused by this, we would need to do
drastic changes in Blender's keymaps and internal handling. It was worth
a try, but it didn't work.
I can write down a more descriptive statement in a few days, but for now
I need a break of this stuff.
Design task: T42339
Differential Revision: D840
Initial implementation proposal: T41867
Short description:
With this we can distinguish between holding and tabbing a key. Useful
is this if we want to assign to operators to a single shortcut. If two
operators are assigned to one shortcut, we call this a sticky key.
More info is accessible through the design task and the diff.
A few people that were involved with this:
* Sean Olson for stressing me with this burden ;) - It is his enthusiasm
that pushed me forward to get this done
* Campbell and Antony for the code and design review
* Ton for the design review
* All the other people that gave feedback on the patch and helped to
make this possible
A big "Thank You" for you all!
* The `NODE_OT_parent_clear` operator has been removed. This was a very
simplistic operator that detached every selected node, which is not very
useful in case of hierarchical frames. The `NODE_OT_detach` operator
only detaches the top parent nodes in the selection, keeping the
hierarchy of selected nodes intact.
* The `ALT+P` shortcut has been reassigned to the `NODE_OT_detach`
operator which replaces the previous `NODE_OT_clear` mapping with
similar behavior (also gives a menu entry shortcut now).
* Shortcuts for `NODE_OT_detach_translate_attach` have been removed, due
to crowded and messy keymap and unintuitive shortcut `ALT+F`. This macro
operator is still registered, in case hardcore users want to make their
own keymaps, but not mapped by default. Node keymaps may need some
redesign in the future for these things.
This was suggested by @zanqdo on IRC. Hiding sockets is a user choice
(not to be confused with "unavailable" disabled sockets). Hidden sockets
suddenly popping up when linking is confusing and intransparent, better
just ignore them for the swapping.
neighboring sockets when connecting to an occupied input.
This now works based on socket names rather than types, which helps to
avoid unwanted connections to arbitrary sockets. Sockets are considered
swappable when their names match, based on an alphabetic prefix followed
by non-alphabetic suffix.
For example:
Image - Image : matches
Color1 - Color2 : matches (used e.g. in cycles mix nodes)
Roughness - Rotation : does not match (suffix is still alphabetic)
originally intended as a way to speed up workflow for math and mix nodes, but more often than not it just gets in the way. Most binary (or n-ary) functions are not even commutative, i.e. changing the
order of sockets does not usually produce the correct result. Also this includes the more common case where one actually wants to replace a socket, which then requires a second click to remove the
shifted connection. All in all this is not a helpful feature.
called the generic node tree update function, which is happening anyway after all relevant node operators (if it doesn't that has to be considered a bug).
It has been suggested to better use the C key for circle select, this remains to be discussed.
Adding a new node in Node Editor failed for "High DPI" (Only Mac retina now).
- Py script for adding nodes was doing dpi magic, which it shouldn't. It has
been replaced with a (temporary) API call to set the correct cursor location.
(Thanks to Lukas T for helping here)
- The SpaceNode->cursor[2] property now is *only* storing the coordinate
in "adding new node space". Use of this has been removed from the code where
possible, with as only exception the code to draw noodles while adding them.
Special coder note: Nodes should respect the DPI value, and draw larger with
larger buttons if you increase this size. The hack here is that this can only
work nice if also the node positions are scaled accordingly.
A better fix could be to check on scaling the node view itself for it. That
then would also remove this Python API call that was added in this commit.
However, that again might fight with how buttons layout code works now...
needs some careful checking.
